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Vigilantes or ‘Good Guy with a Gun’ Folk Heroes?

“You don’t look too bad, here’s another”Bernhard Goetz In 1981, teenagers attacked and injured Bernhard Goetz on a New York subway station. Afterward, Goetz applied for a gun permit. On December 22, 1984, Goetz, a 37-year-old white male, carrying an unlicensed .38 caliber revolver, boarded a Manhattan train. Four black teenagers, Troy Canty, Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, and James Ramseur,…

actual justice

As pundits and legal experts consider why Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of murder, many have focused on the prosecution’s choices — and possible errors — in the case, or else on the rulings of the presiding judge.

But even more than the prosecution or the verdict, it is really the defense’s strategy that we will have to live with for years to come — a strategy based on a bold and unapologetic acknowledgment of the dangers inherent in carrying a gun. The defense doubled down on the right to bear arms and asserted a right to fire, too. Such a strategy, which has adherents at the poles of the political spectrum, will increase gun violence, not only in red states, but wherever it is allowed to go unchallenged.

In an April 2 memo, Barnhill wrote that the McMichaels and a third man, Bryan Williams, “were in hot pursuit… of a burglary suspect, with solid, first-hand probable cause” and that “their intent was to stop and hold this criminal suspect until law enforcement arrived.” Barnhill added that “under Georgia law, this is perfectly legal.” Georgia’s “stand your ground” law, passed in 2006, states that a person using force in self-defense has "no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground.”

According to the initial police report in the case, Gregory McMichael told officers that he pursued Arbery because “there have been several break-ins in the neighborhood.” However, the Brunswick News reported that police records showed there had been only one burglary reported in Satilla Shores in 2020—the theft of a handgun from a pickup truck parked outside Travis McMichael’s home on January 1.

On the day of the fatal shooting, emergency dispatchers received two calls about a black man running in Satilla Shores. Video later emerged of Arbery entering an open property under construction, remaining there for three minutes and then jogging down the street. One of the 911 callers mentioned this. Neither caller mentioned any criminal activity, leading one dispatcher to ask, “I just need to know what he’s doing wrong.”

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Finish the Run - Virtual Race in honor of Ahmaud Arbery

New Post has been published on https://www.all4health.co/finish-the-run-virtual-race-in-honor-of-ahmaud-arbery/

Finish the Run - Virtual Race in honor of Ahmaud Arbery